TobaccoTactics.org
TocabboTactics.org is a website, ultimately funded by the UK taxpayer to document the alleged "tactics of the tobacco industry in fighting anti-tobacco groups." (£56,409[1] from CRUK alone.) It was created (or more likely initially commissioned) by Linda Bauld (Bath University), Eveline Lubbers and Andrew Rowell[2][3]
Research would appear to have been carried out by a Dutch organisation Stichting Res Publica, which itself is part of Buro Jansen & Janssen.[2] Of which Evelin Lubbers was a co-founder:
Eveline Lubbers is an investigative reporter and activist living in Amsterdam. She co-founded the Jansen & Janssen Bureau to monitor police and secret services. She has produced books on corporate intelligence and PR strategies of multinationals against their critics, subjects mainly in Dutch.[4]
Sadly, they also seem to document those whose only involvement with the tobacco industry is as a customer and are sick of bully-statism.
This site
It was noticed on 1st July 2012, that they'd decided to list the owner of this website [5] simply because of an FoI request into why Smokefree South West thought it wise to spend nearly £.5 million of taxpayers money on lobbying the government.
Dick Puddlecote
For some reason the researchers behind the site seem unaware of pseudonyms being used on the internet, especially with blogs, and they seem to have a problem with determining who says what[6]:
A perfect example is this claim:
He also calls, ASH's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Deborah Arnott a "wanker" who is "paid for out of your taxes”.[22]
I found this curious as I didn't remember it, which is unusual. Hardly surprising since I didn't say it.[7]
It was lifted from a quoted section of an article by Tim Worstall.
And I’ll even make a deal. When Deborah Arnott’s screen and radio appearances, public utterances, are accompanied by a “this wanker is paid for out of your taxes” warning then I’ll make sure that my income, and thus my funding, is similarly disclosed. Until then you’re all cordially invited to fornicate and travel.
As you can see, even Timmy didn't directly call Arnott a wanker. A non-existent message from an unspecified fantasy government department did.
References
- ↑ http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/Dick_Puddlecote/BathGrants3.png
- ↑ a b http://nannyingtyrants.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/big-tobacco-controls-intimidation.html
- ↑ http://daveatherton.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/smoke-free-south-west-pays-a-dutch-private-detective-agency-to-spy-on-anti-tobacco-control/
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Battling-Big-Business-Eveline-Lubbers/dp/1567512259
- ↑ http://tobaccotactics.org/index.php/FOI:_SmokeFree_South_West#Forest_and_Others_Submit_FOIs [| archive]
- ↑ http://tobaccotactics.org/index.php/Dick_Puddlecote#Attacks_ASH
- ↑ dickpuddlecote.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/why-are-we-paying-for-this-ineptitude.html
